SENEA students set up a test stand to experiment on the wind turbine before putting it up on a large tower in China

About Us

                

                 SENEA is a University of Tulsa student organization working to bring together college students and the global community in the interests of sustainable and alternative energy technologies and practices for the promotion of research, development, and implementation of such practices and technologies on a world-wide scale.

                 This is accomplished by dedicated students working year round on research projects who are committed to helping people with energy needs.  Typically an academic year has students researching topics and building prototypes, with short trips to the overseas project sites occurring to maintain relations and learn of new happenings.  Summers can be spent on campus continuing research, or at project cites building useable technologies that have been proven successful through prototyping.

                 Working in conjunction with the needs and desires of our overseas contacts, SENEA focuses on research projects that can be directly implemented where we are already working.  Projects include wind power, solar power, biogas digestion, greenhouse design, and many others.  See Project List for more details.

                 SENEA has been active at the University of Tulsa since 2006.  A short assessment trip with four students in the summer of 2007 was followed by 10 students taking an extended implementation trip of eight weeks in the summer of 2008.   Two more assessment trips were taken during the 2008-2009 academic year, and another trip of two weeks in the summer of 2009.  Projects that are successfully prototyped in the 2009-2010 academic year have the potential to be implemented in the summer of 2010.

                 Currently SENEA has a focused project site in Jilin Province, China and has recently expanded to another site in central Haiti where similar energy needs are abundant.

Membership is open to any student, faculty, alumni, or staff member of the University of Tulsa.  While most of our projects are engineering focused, we welcome anyone who would like to work on the educational and cultural side of what we do.

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Sustainable Energy for North East Asia

View of a barn and training center at the project site in Jilin Province, China.  During many trips to China, students would stay at the project site for ease of access to their components.